Improvement in vapor-burners



J. WHITE.

Vapor Burner.

N0.106,'753. Patented Aug.23, 1870.

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JOSEPH WHITE, O F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND J. B. WIGKERSHAM, OF SAME PLACE Letters Patent No. 106,753, dated August 23, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'VAPOR-IBURNERS.

The schedifle refened to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, JOSEPH WHITE, of Philadelphia, in the Stateot' Pennsylvania, have invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Vapor- Burners, and the following is declared to be a correct. description thereof.

Heretofo're vapor-burners have been made with hollow heads or caps, into which the hydrocarbon vapots pass, and issue in jets from holes around such caps, and the heat imparted by the flames to the metal of such caps causes the generation of vapor from liquid hydrocarbon in a cotton wick.

My invention consists in a cap, made of thin metal,

with projecting peripheral beads, beneath which are the holes for the vapors to issue and burn as jets.

By this construction the gaseous vapors become heated before issuing from the cap, because the beads are over the flames, and become highly heated, and the vapors are in contact with the inner sides of such hollow beads, ,and hence issue in a condition more favorable to perfect combustion than is the case wit-h the ordinary vaptn-burners.

In my burner the thin sheet metal of the cap only conduetssufl cient heat to the wick-tube to vaporize the liquid hydrocarbon. I

' In Figure 1 of the drawing I have shown a vertical section of my vapor-burner upon a wick-tube, and in Figure 2 a section of the burner detached, and made with two ranges of perforations for the flamejets. 4

. evolved from the hydrocarbon in the wick, the neces-' sary. temperature for obtaining a bright, steady, uniform light.

I claim as my invention- The vapor-burner, made with a hollow head, of sheet metal, projectingaround the periphery of the cap, and above the perloritions, for the vapor to issue and burn in jets, as and for the purposes set forth. 7

Signed by me this 27th day of April, A. D. 1870.

JOSEPH WHITE.

Witnesses:

NORMAN H. STEVENS, Hesav WATT. 

